Nov. 11, 2018, 3:32 p.m.

By Sunday afternoon, Zuma Beach in Malibu had become something of a way station for Malibu residents who had been forced to evacuate their homes but didn’t want to stray too far in the hopes that an evacuation order might be lifted.

Around 8 a.m., Pam Whitman was walking her dog Trapper along the sands with a mask covering her face and a wooden walking stick in her right hand.

“We wanted to be close to home. We have evacuated to Zuma before,” said Whitman, a Realtor who has lived in Malibu for 40 years.

Nov. 11, 2018, 3:30 p.m.

Malibu City Councilman Jefferson “Zuma Jay” Wagner suffered serious injuries while trying to protect his home from the fire, according to another city councilman, Skylar Peak.

Wagner was hospitalized with injuries related to smoke inhalation sometime Friday after he ignored an evacuation order and tried to fend off flames at a house he owned on Old Chimney Road in Latigo Canyon, Peak said.

Peak said Wagner’s wife told him late Saturday night that the well-known surf shop owner was placed in an intensive care unit at a local hospital, but he is expected to survive. Wagner’s house was destroyed, Peak said.

Nov. 11, 2018, 3:04 p.m.

Around 12:30 p.m. firefighters from the Vernon Fire department looked on as tankers and helicopters bombarded the peaks and slopes of Malibu Canyon with flame retardants and water to put out spot fires that kept coming up.

There were at least two large tankers, one small tanker and four helicopters in the last hour.

This air bombardment helped push the flames back as Los Angeles County Fire Department Engineer Scott Pishe and his team looked on outside of several multimillion dollar homes.

Nov. 11, 2018, 1:37 p.m.

Fire crews raced down the intersection of Bell Canyon Road and Valley Circle late Sunday morning, en route to battle multiple hot spots that flared up at the base of the road.

A crowd of about 30 people stood at the corner, their cellphones out recording video and taking photos as firefighters hiked up the hillside beneath a cloud of thick smoke.

The crews, shouting instructions above the roar of a helicopter and sirens, grabbed hoses and sprayed as a palm tree erupted in flames and dry brush quickly caught fire like tinder, inching toward a home at the top of a ridge.

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Nov. 11, 2018, 12:51 p.m.

The California Highway Patrol said it might soon reopen the 101 Freeway, which has been closed for days due to the Woolsey fire.

“Currently working to re-open the 101 Fwy in both directions, however ramps will be closed in the section between Valley Circle/Mulholland and Reyes Adobe. With return of Santa Ana winds, residents of Topanga are urged to take evacuations seriously,” the CHP said on Twitter.